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The Power of Patience: Why Your Painful Endurance Leads To A Glorious Life

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Stop chasing instant results and start building a life that lasts. Explore the power of patience in personal growth and learn how to navigate the painful endurance required for a truly glorious transformation. Your breakthrough is closer than you think. Patience is the key. The Power of Patience What is the Power of Patience? It’s been a little more than a month since I joined the gym, though I’ve been training there about 3 to 4 days a week. I’m not insane to find a physical transformation so early. When I told my friends that I’d begun physical training at the gym, they laughed at me, saying what’s with this paunch? touching my slightly bulged belly. I have slight belly fat, not a real big one.  For me, a flat belly with a muscular build impresses me, and I think it’s a pride for any gender, so I joined a gym. Today, working out at the gym, I turned to the head coach as he stood beside me.  I was doing my crunches, and I told him I wanted to get rid of this belly and how many of these crunches would help me.  He advised me on the various belly exercises, standing, and floor ones. He spoke of how diet plays a key role in any physical transformation of a body, especially the belly, which was my concern. But something he said as he ended the talk that maybe got me a bit philosophical and seemed like a sage’s advice for life and its ways. He said it all depends on how much time you give to your workout. You just work out, and there will be a change. If you give time and consistency, there will certainly be a change in your body, and your bulging belly will be flat and toned instead. He told me the ‘power of patience’ is real. Indeed, he seemed right, as for proof, I have a co-member in the gym.  He has a highly muscular physique; even with his T-shirt worn, he still looked all so muscular and in shape.  I asked him how long it took him to carve such a body, and he, being a humble guy, replied sheepishly two years. Further prompted by me on each day’s workout time, he said around two hours. Now, just what the head coach’s suggestion of time seemed like was a double-tick on a messenger app guiding me to show I ought that the message be restored as read and retained, that is, Time… We live in a world that is obsessed with the “now.”  We have instant coffee, instant messaging, and an unspoken expectation of instant success.  Then there are curated feeds of overnight millionaires and twenty-somethings who seem to have “figured it all out,” and we subconsciously set a stopwatch for our own lives. When we don’t hit our milestones according to a self-imposed, lightning-fast schedule, we feel like we are failing. Every lifestyle has a design and a pattern of self-improvement that needs to be worked on.  If you want great things, things that last, then surely you require a brutal amount of time. Understanding the power of patience in personal growth isn’t just about waiting; it’s about how you behave and evolve while you wait. The Illusion of the Overnight Success The modern “hustle culture” has sold us a lie. The power of patience is never spoken of.  In fact, it tells us that if we aren’t seeing results within a month, we need to change the way we work.  This, in turn, creates a cycle of “start and stop.” “Practice makes perfect” does not apply to these. I went to the countryside, where my f-in-law has a property, and his neighbour and many others around had planted betel nut trees.  These trees, I was told, typically begin producing fruit 5 to 8 years after planting. While some trees may start bearing fruit in as little as 4 years, commercial, economic yields generally would commence around 7 years.  Now the power of patience is rewarded to these cultivators of betel nut trees, I felt.  Your personal growth was not happening in a week or a month; you were preparing and growing every day.  So like the betel nut tree, your initial years (of brutal struggle) are your root-building phase.  So keep your calm, even if it’s going slow, as long as it’s consistent and on. Success can be slow, but consistency and effort guarantee success is for sure. Growth is uncomfortable because it requires the death of your old self or the death of old ways.  To become the person you want to be, you have to let go of the habits, mindsets, and even the social circles that kept you where you were. This transition period is what many call “the messy middle.” In this phase, you are doing the work, but the rewards haven’t arrived yet.  You’re hitting the gym, but the man in the mirror hasn’t changed.  You’re writing your book, but the pages feel mediocre. You’re practising mindfulness, but you still feel flashes of anxiety.  This is where most people quit. They mistake the lack of immediate feedback for a lack of progress. Patience is the shield that protects you during this time. It allows you to say, “I am not seeing the fruit yet, but I know the roots are growing.” That is the power of patience at play.  Give time time The above would mean practising patience and allowing a situation, person, or process to develop naturally without forcing or rushing it.  Time can be a healer, the answer, or the secret.  The power of patience, thus giving time, would resolve challenges, and clarity would emerge.  It is to trust the passage of time.  There are similar idioms to encourage, like… “Time will tell” “Patience is a virtue”, and “Time will heal”, and this holds for the broken hearts more.  Essentially, it is a reminder to stop forcing a specific timeline and

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Finding Peace Within

Finding Peace Within: Why Being Alive Is Your Greatest Achievement

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We spend our entire lives being told that we need to do more to be more or someone.  From our childhood, we are conditioned to believe that we will be valued based on our salary, our job title, or our social standing.  But what if what has been told or made believe to us is all wrong? Maybe the secret to finding peace within isn’t all these earthly accolades and materials in your life, but believing, “You are alive, and that’s enough.” ”. Your existence in the present time and space is already the “final prize”. Finding Peace Within The Power Of Finding Peace Within It’s all inside you. You were born with it, all within.  True contentment doesn’t come from a life without problems or achieving name, fame, and all the earthly pomp.  The sheer beauty of life is in the living.  Start with a thought that you can re-read every day, telling yourself, a realization of sorts, that no matter what life gives, you have already won the most important race, the race to exist.  Your birth was not a fluke, a chance, or a mistake.  Nature and time planned that you exist in this era. 4.5 billion years since the inception of nature, you were already recorded to be born in this era.  Now you must be special.  When you trick your thoughts or philosophise the spirit inside you, the pressure to “become someone” fades away. You already are someone.  You are the universe experiencing itself.  Finding peace within is as important as finding success in life.  There is no escaping the need for hard work to achieve success, but the art, or the message, for a breathing body with a heart and soul that feels the hurts and joys of life, is to be prepared first to find peace within.  We live in times when peace is transactional or tied to a state of “when-then.” When I get that promotion, then I’ll be happy.  When I lose those ten pounds, then will I call myself a winner.  We are constantly chasing a future version of ourselves that doesn’t exist yet, ignoring the ‘me, myself’ who is breathing and living right now.  This cycle is the wall to internal calm and peace.  Finding peace within cannot be reached when your worth is tied to a moving goalpost.  You will always remain unsettled deep within.    Self-development is important; a part of us has to improve each passing day, but the seed is first to appreciate the miracle of being alive today.  Google says approximately 5,000 babies are stillborn (born dead) every day worldwide, while another 6,500 to 7,000 newborns die within their first 24 hours. As you read this article, you have survived, and not one among the above number.  You are alive.  Say 3 Cheers to life. Survival is success. The ways of life are mysterious.  There will be days when you achieve great things, and there will be days of failures and when you just survive the day, achieving nothing. The sunrise does not depend on the past day’s work. It just rises.  In the harder days, your breathing was the same, your heartbeat was the winner. The world demands excellence, but nature only demands presence.  For the flower, its achievement was in its blooming.  Nature has kept it simple; it’s only we humans with our super intelligence who have made it so complicated.  Finding peace within is believing that existence itself is a triumph.  The world, obsessed with constant productivity and achievement, can wait. Let me listen to my breath in and out first with closed eyes.  Isn’t my breathing a part of the same nature that breathes from its very birth for a billion years before? So I’m older than my current age.  They say it’s not over till it’s over. So till I live, let me just cherish it all.   A lot of faith teaches us that life is eternal, and our earthly living is just a journey. It seems so true. We just change our form and shapes; we were part of the earliest creation, a part of nature.  Finding Peace Within With The Truth Go achieve your goals and success; nobody or anything should be a hindrance.  Life is once. Just don’t get exhausted with the trials and troubles of life.  In the cycle of constant chasing, there will be goals reached, or it might be all zero in the end. The trying is your deed. In all the running, find your space of rest to speak to yourself, to listen to your breath.  Telling yourself, I’m alive and kicking, so be it, nothing else matters.  My life is not a trophy room or a shelf; it’s an experience.  The truth is my being alive. A rare and precious occurrence.  Even when all my titles are stripped away, and my bank account is just enough for survival, and nothing much is happening in my social media profiles, the raw me is still a reality. I still have an identity. Even if nobody recognises my existence, nature still embraces me.  Why does anybody else matter? You were born worthy.  Every breath you take is a quiet rebellion against a world that tries to tell you that you aren’t doing enough. Don’t stop your growing or dreaming, but let not your happiness be tied to worldly expectations.  Your freedom is in knowing that you are alive and an important part of the very existence of nature in this time and space.  Final Go… Life is not forever, but still it’s beautiful.  It won’t be perfect, but I live it.  Your heart beating is speaking to you; listen to its voice.  Life says ‘hi’ to you every day.  You are a living, breathing part of this universe, and isn’t that a miracle?  Finding peace within is knowing that you are alive, and for today, that is enough.  Love life…

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Solitude

Solitude that Is Healthy

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Choosing Solitude is not Choosing Loneliness…there’s a difference. Solitude Solitude is not the most revered word that announces triumph in the materialistic standards of our world. Solitude would read as being alone, but the seer speaks to differ that it is not merely being alone; it’s about being present with yourself. The philosophies of the seer are not for everyday, normal kinds. He would further his speech to say that it is a conscious, deliberate state of withdrawal from the noise of the world to connect with the voice within. Now, motivational speakers say we need to be more extroverted, so choosing solitude can feel like a rebellious act. Our times prize extroversion. So what’s with solitude that we will seek? It is in this quiet space that the magic of clarity happens. Like a car has a workshop where it’s built, and a garage where it is repaired. Nature has also built for us a personal workshop that we can step into for the mind and soul, and it’s to go within, thus solitude. Chosen solitude is not a space; it is a state of fullness. It is not the absence of others, but the conscious, deliberate choice, and a joyful presence of someone, that is oneself. It is a curated space where the noise of the world recedes, an inner symphony, your own, created or inbuilt and unheard by you. This solitude is now a temple and, not a prison, if it were otherwise loneliness. There is a difference between loneliness and solitude. And let your state be one of solitude. Your life in the age of modernity and urban style, with traits of pace, change, and notifications, has erased the inner sway of knowing your own abilities and resilience. Silence is good; we were never conditioned to try. We mistook being quiet for a state of emptiness. But what I did not know was that this quiet is not empty at all. This was a medium through my life to move into dimensions that I had never tread. And I had it all as unknown. Choosing solitude can be an act of self-understanding and search. My mind was like a theatre where many a movie had played, thus I held not to even one, to say it speaks for me. For that, I need to let the movie play slowly so that I can understand the scenes and it’s playing for me. Now solitude teaches me that no masks are required, for colleagues, family and friends. I need not perform; this is life, not a scripted stage. So shun that social script. The script of your life is written, but all in secret codes, revealed with every living breath of yours. You can never be the best actor when the play is real, and not a stage or reel. Find solitude as your highest companion, that was and will be the only one till the last beat of your heart synchronised with your breath, when on earth. This moment with oneself can be unsettling and novel at first, like a sudden stop, the noise and chaos of your own body that seemed like a running train engine earlier is now a place of a still boat in the deep sea, just being caressed by the mighty waves, and being felt like a mother rocking her baby in her arms. That’s the state that the seer had advised to be, and called solitude. That’s Me Find your authentic self. What I was earlier was a curated being, moulded to please and adjust to those around me. A socially shaped profile was what I was sketching, erasing and re-sketching of myself. In solitude, the one within me is raw, unedited, and infinitely complex, still so sweet and named as nectar within. The thinking now is honest, what was my trait, and when my senses were placed in my order of being by my Creator. It’s like a reboot of me has happened. The process of joy and sorrow seemed like being the luggage in the last bogey of my life train. My engine now reads “Who am I, truly?” I had a first-of-a-kind, self-encounter. Nature has it built in us all. Then great things happen, which were followed. Einstein’s thought experiments, Beethoven’s compositions despite his deafness, the profound meditations of the Buddha — all required a withdrawal from the collective hum to tap into a deeper, more universal frequency. The universe has music; we don’t have the ears to hear it. Solitude is a womb, from which births originate. Let the pressure and chaos not consume you. Like modern devices need to be charged electrically, so that they can perform according to their purpose and design. Solitude can be your moment of charging to clarify your purpose and design, and not a mere journey on earth as a human being. Connect the dots to solve the equations of our life. There’s a genius in you, waiting for that spark to ignite. Solitude, what will you gain It’s your training ground. Your eternal dependence will overpower your external validation. Opinions and others’ attention do not matter now. You build a fortress for yourself, you’re drawing water from your own well. Setbacks of life, rejection, failure, and loss are all weathered to come and go, when we say we are living a life, but there is a challenge within you that is nurtured to be called resilience and an inner strength. Solitude teaches that there is a complete universe unto itself. Mistake this not as arrogance; it is the quiet, unshakeable confidence that comes from being intimately acquainted with one’s own soul. Finding your dialogue with your soul in solitude. Solitude is not self-confinement or dissuading oneself from the world; in fact, it teaches one to relate to people from a place of inner fullness. The relation with people is now generous, purer, and less transactional or materialistic. There’s a me that hears deeply, loves more freely, and deals more

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Deja Vu

“What’s Deja Vu: Ever Felt Like This Happened Before?

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Have you ever walked into a moment, a conversation, a hardship, even into a joy, and felt to tell thyself “I’ve been here before” It’s Deja Vu… Is Deja vu in itself a reality? There’s a feeling that you are not here in these moments for the first time. Are you a human, living here today for the first time? In faiths that believe in reincarnation, deja vu is often seen as a glimpse into past lives. As the belief that the soul travels to a new life after the earlier life ceases to exist, an experience today might seem for the person that it had encountered sometime before (maybe in a previous life). It’s as if, across the journey of many lives, certain emotions, places, and people leave their imprints on the soul, and these imprints resurface, reminding us that we are eternal travellers between lives… Just as their existence moves in a circle and not a line, the moments they experienced earlier live again for them in a circle, aka Deja vu. Earth in its process is Deja vu. You had spring and summer; again, there is a spring and summer. Like in the rotation of time. You hear the sounds of birds, and it reminds you that the same sound you’ve heard in the past, making you feel it isn’t a new sound; you’ve heard it, thus lived it before. The same goes for clouds in the sky and the rain. They all transport you to memories from the past, making you feel they aren’t new you’ve lived it all before. Nothing in Nature that is happening now is happening for the first time; it’s all occurred many times before. Does Nature show us that Deja vu is a reality? In Life, Nothing Is Truly New … When you face heartbreak, disappointment, fear, or confusion, it feels overwhelming and hurtful. But pause. Breathe. Jog your inner memory. You have faced loss before. You have felt fear before. It’s just that in this play called life, the situations and the actors that have caused you discomfort have changed, but the core emotions remain the same. Here, feel not saddened, rather evoke a feeling of Deja Vu, reminding yourself… You’ve walked through this fire before, and you will walk through it again…stronger You’re living moments are cyclical in nature, and thus a feeling of Deja Vu. Also, they call a person who has faced and outlived moments of happiness and sorrow in one’s life is known as a person with experience. Experience attained living moments multiple times is Deja Vu in disguise. “Familiar Strangers: A Parallel World Deja Vu.” Sci-fi beliefs have made it stranger to ascertain. They say the feeling of Deja Vu is real, as there is a parallel world existing that has us living our Earth moments there, thus we have an experience on Earth of what we have already lived there. All these parallel worlds are made of sci-fi tales, I cannot know much lest I reach there to read this same article that I’ve already written there and check my claps and comments, so I comment here to ascertain its existence. Echoes Of Existence Rather Eternal Recurrence… Deja vu reminds us that we are part of something larger than ourselves. These moments are a ripple in the eternal current, a whisper from the unseen dimensions of lived experiences on Earth. Experiences of people who have lived before us and live not today with us. No moment is entirely our own. Our existence is not the first but a continuation of what had already existed before we smelled Earth. There were countless lives, countless dreams, countless longings, ours is not the first. The path you walk now was already journeyed before. Not exactly, not identically, but essentially. Our lives our just echoes of life that have lived before us. The ones who lived before you are not all in existence today, but the soils and the rivers and all the threads of the Earth hold them all in their memory as they will of you when you’re gone from Earth. There is a revelation that there is no moment that is new, neither our fears, nor our achievements, nor loneliness. Others have borne them. Others have survived them. Breathe in a state of meditativeness and combine with life and hear her telling you… You are not alone Ancient mystics and thinkers have spoken of something vast though unseen, of which you will relate from above, it’s called… Anima Mundi — The World Soul Anima mundi, meaning “World Soul” in Latin, refers to the idea that the universe is connected by a single, unifying soul or vital force. This concept, found in ancient philosophical and religious systems, suggests that the world, like a human body, has an animating spirit that permeates and connects all living things. The World is one big soul, and we human souls are interconnected and held by that ‘One Soul’ If the World is “One Soul” is real, then its effects are all around us, not as sudden miracles, but as subtle currents shaping our existence. There’s an invisible hand maybe who lived in the ancient that steady us when we falter. Here where we stand, somebody’s already stood. Is my soul an extension of a soul that is ancient. It is if we believe the Cosmos is one big soul. Why do certain person’s like writing, a few like sports, and a few love philosophy and more. These souls are all connected, so Plato smiles in Cosmos over my limited knowledge of philosophy. But me and those interested in philosophy are all even today connected with Plato and more. Why if the best Doctor in the world, the best Writer, the highest Saint each die, the world doesn’t stop as nothing is dead or extinct, they all still breathe in the Cosmos and lend their extensions and wisdom to the living souls. There is a language of the souls. Treat all life, plant,

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Scientific Laws of Life

The Scientific Laws of Life: 10 Universal Principles That Shape Your Life

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There is a correlation between scientific laws of Nature and a silent similarity to your own life, as you live with an ever-beating heart. The scientific laws of life are now derived; these laws of nature are now seen as a blueprint, teaching us how to live our lives. The cause and effect as a formula in science can also be a formula for life. Press enter or click to view image in full size Scientific Laws of Life The Scientific Laws of Life, a Mirror to Life The scientific laws of life, as stated above, can be easily translated into what nature already whispers, that everything that we do, think, and feel is part of a greater rhythm of the Universe and its laws. It’s as if everything happening now in your life is nothing new or the first time that it’s occurring; it’s already a part of nature, thus your life is just a reflection of the very laws of nature. The same scientific principles that govern stars, atoms, and oceans also guide the unseen workings of human life. The story of my life is the story that is already told through its laws. These scientific laws are not cold or distant; they are similes. The statutes, as described, can be likened to your life as they happen. In every law of physics lies a moral for life and philosophically, for the soul. When we begin to see science and life as one, there is a coexistence that dates back to when the first breath of life entered the Universe. We often think of scientific laws as confined to labs, governing planets, particles, and all living beings. But what if they can be formulas and answers that help to govern our own lives, relationships, our personal growth, and happiness? Imagine if the same principle that keeps the moon in orbit also influenced your habits, or the law that explains energy could clarify why your mood is contagious or life seems so disarrayed. Let’s explore the similarities of these laws and our own lives, and how we can learn from them and apply them in our own lives; thus, we refer to them as the scientific laws of life. Science and Life 10 Scientific Laws and Principles and Its Similarities and If They Can be Applied to Your Own Life and Events. Newton’s Third Law of Motion Scientific Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Life Event Simile: The energy you put out into the world returns to you. If you cause hurt, deception, or anger, you will eventually encounter similar negativity directed back at you. In the same way, your kindness, support, and generosity often inspire others and life you back by treating you the same way. “Be good to find the same coming back to you, thus your action and its reaction law at play.”         2. The Law of Conservation of Energy Scientific Law: Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be transformed from one form to another. Life Event Simile: The emotional and mental energy you invest in your living days does not simply disappear or melt. Your anxiety and worry transform into stress that harms your body. In contrast, your effort and passion that you put into a project or life moments will be transformed into skills, results, and the respect you gain from others. “Your ‘energy in’ will determine your ‘energy out.”           3. The Law of Gravitation Scientific Law: Every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers. Life Event Simile: You are “attracted” to and “attract” people and opportunities that resonate with your own “mass” and value, namely your character, values, and positive energy. Further, negative influences have a weaker “pull” the more you distance yourself from them. “You are a magnet. Become someone worth attracting, and move away from what drags you down and keeps you low in life.”         4. The Second Law of Thermodynamics Scientific Law: The total entropy, or disorder, of an isolated system will always increase over time, or remain constant in ideal cases. Life Event Simile: Friendships weaken when we stop talking.Skills fade when we stop practicing.Homes get messy when we stop cleaning.To stay successful and happy, we must keep working to take care of what matters — because life naturally moves toward disorder if we don’t.” “If we don’t keep putting in effort, things in life naturally fall apart.”         5. The Principle of Inertia (Newton’s First Law) Scientific Law: An object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion, unless acted upon by an external force. Life Event Simile: A person in a state of stagnation (unhappiness, lethargy, procrastination) will remain there unless a decisive force (a decision, a life-changing event, inspiration) acts upon them. Similarly, once you build momentum toward a goal (career, fitness, and learning), it becomes easier to keep moving forward. “If we go stagnant and lazy with life, there will be inaction and loss, but taking decisive, moving action will lead us towards success and growth.”         6. Archimedes’ Principle of Buoyancy Scientific Law: An object submerged in a fluid experiences an upward buoyant force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces. Life Event Simile: To rise in life (to achieve success, or to overcome a challenge), you must “displace” something, usually your comfort zone, old habits, or unproductive beliefs. “The more you push these things aside (the greater the displacement), the higher you will rise.”        7. The Observer Effect (in Quantum Physics) Scientific Law: The act of observing a system inevitably alters that system. Life Event Simile: Your perspective and focus can shape your reality. If you constantly look for negativity and drama, you will find it, and it will be amplified.

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Mentally Strong

Rise Again Stronger: How Being Mentally Strong Can Help You Make a Comeback

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The line is very slim between finding yourself down and out and making an attempt to rise again stronger. Being mentally strong can help you make that comeback when you felt it was all hopeless and gone. It’s the ability and resilient of your mind telling you to stay calm in this moment of chaos, to keep the fire of faith burning, and rebuild the burned path with courage. Mentally Strong What It Really Means to Be Mentally Strong Being mentally strong in times of trouble and loss isn’t about pretending or armoring yourself with a false belief, it’s a genuine way of practicing mental strength and resilient against the wall of solid difficulty and unrest. It’s being real and true to yourself. It’s facing the storm with courage and vigor, admitting that the emotions need to be battled and not let them take control of you instead. It’s believing in your own abilities, talents, and strength. A mentally strong person won’t deny or ignore the fact of pain and trouble, they work to persevere through the difficulties until they are resolved. They would imply themselves in action to remain steadfast and persistent until the end. You have a choice to be resilient, mentally tough, master your thoughts, your reactions, or just tag yourself a victim of circumstances. It’s the mental spirit that is at play that will define the moments of your life when in chaos and windy weather in relevance to the troubles of life. To be mentally strong is making yourself believe that you can rise again and even stronger than before. Your mental belief and positiveness becomes the foundation or the stepping stone for your rising up from the ashes of darkness and loss. It’s like making a comeback in life moments from down to standing and then to fly. And… Every setback is life’s way of preparing you for your next rise.   Being mentally strong is making your mind believe that you can rise again, and surely your beliefs will be fulfilled. Believing in the philosophy that failures, heartbreaks, and disappointments aren’t the end, they’re the training ground for being resilient and being mentally strong. Mentally Strong Persons as Inspiration There have been people like you and me who’ve had their falls but have fought bravely to inspire us through their years of living mentally strong, teaching us to be vigorous and hopeful, working to rise again victorious. Nelson Mandela He was in prison for 27 years, fighting apartheid. He accepted his reality without surrendering to despair. His goal was bigger than himself, freedom for South Africa. This provided a meaning that made his suffering endurable. He wasn’t just “in prison”; he was “sacrificing for a cause.” Lessons: Anchor your struggle to a purpose larger than yourself. Practice accepting your circumstances not as permanent, but as a current reality you can navigate without being consumed by resentment. J.K. Rowling A divorced, unemployed single mother living on state benefits, clinically depressed, and rejected by 12 major publishers. Despite the rejections, she continued to send her manuscript out. Her internal belief in the world of “Harry Potter” was unshakable, acting as a shield against external validation. The mentally strong Rowling was resilient in character and deeds and delivered, “The Harry Potter series” and became a global phenomenon, making her one of the most successful and beloved authors in history. Lessons: Like J.K. Rowling, believe in yourself, your dreams and passions so dearly that you continue to live it despite many rejections and failures.     Steve Jobs Fired from Apple, the very company he co-founded. Being fired freed him to start over with NeXT and Pixar. He wasn’t trapped by the “expert” mindset of his past role at Apple. He started new, not depressed or living in his past glory but dropping the baggage and looking into the future. Steve returned to Apple and led it to become the most valuable company in the world with revolutionary products like the iMac, iPod, and iPhone. Lessons: Steve Jobs lessons from his life, is not just about technology, it’s about his vision, resilience, and valuing to live a life with purpose.   Steve Jobs Lessons Abraham Lincoln A long string of political failures, business bankruptcies, and personal losses before he became the President of United States on March 4, 1861. His life is a master class in not giving up. He lost eight elections, failed in business twice, and had a nervous breakdown. Yet, he kept re-entering the arena. He didn’t see each failure as a final verdict. He maintained a focus on his ultimate goals over a long arc of time. Elected 16th President of the United States and successfully preserved the Union during its greatest internal crisis.   Lessons: You don’t fail by falling down; you fail by staying down. Measure your journey in years and decades, not weeks and months. Daily Habits to Build Mental Muscles Being mentally strong can be a practice, a habit you procure over time. Positive Self-Talk Tell yourself, this isn’t the end. Half the battle outside is first inside your mind. A positive mind, will hit positive outcome. Like telling yourself “You’re the best”, you’ve done it, you can do it again. Before you act, you have to believe. Our mind is never playing rest. Keeping talking positive and affirmation to yourselves. Find your peace within, let not there be thinking with anger just because it’s going bad, but with resolving and acumen. You’ve learned your lessons now, and now you better be smart. “If good times didn’t last, tough times too will pass, and only the tough will survive”   Finding Strength Around Nature has it around, find inspiration from birds around, they store nothing, and still they manage to survive. Find inspiration by reading positive and motivational books, they surely can change your perspective, boost you up. Listen to motivational talks and learn of successful lives, even they have their setbacks that they have outlived.   Stay

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Steve Jobs Lessons

Steve Jobs Lessons: The Visionary Who Taught Us to ‘Think Different’

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Go beyond the biography. The Steve Jobs lessons can be the life of the legendary that he lived to inspire the “Think Different” philosophy. His work and thinking can be you’re textbook, that  can be used to fuel your own creativity, innovation, and success. Steve Jobs Lessons Steve Jobs Lessons: The Early Years In the world of innovators who shaped the modern world, few names resonate as powerfully as Steve Jobs. Born in San Francisco in 1955 and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, his beginnings were unremarkable. But Jobs’ curiosity, relentless energy, and knack for seeing the world differently turned him into a force that redefined technology and culture. He dropped out of Reed College after just one semester but continued auditing classes that fascinated him, such as calligraphy, which later influenced the elegant typography of the Macintosh. This seemingly small choice reflected Steve Jobs lessons for us and his lifelong principle: follow your curiosity, even if it doesn’t make sense at the time. Apple Brand The Man behind the Apple Brand and More… In 1976, Jobs co-founded Apple with his friend Steve Wozniak in his parents’ garage. Their first big breakthrough was the Apple II, which revolutionized personal computing. But Jobs wasn’t just interested in making machines; he wanted to blend technology with artistry, creating tools that were not only functional but also beautiful and human.   The journey wasn’t smooth. In 1985, Jobs was ousted from Apple after internal struggles. For most, this would have been the end of the story. They would have thought it as a failure, but failure can make or break a person, Steve chose the former. For Jobs, it was the beginning of another chapter and a true Steve Jobs lessons on strong will, spirit, and hope. He founded NEXT, a company focused on high-end computers, and acquired Pixar, which went on to create the world’s first full-length computer-animated film, Toy Story. Pixar eventually transformed the animation industry, merging storytelling with groundbreaking technology.   In 1997, Apple was struggling, the same Apple brand that he had founded and was ousted off by the board asked Steve to return and revive the falling brand and made him the CEO. What followed was one of the greatest corporate comebacks in history and the greatest Steve Jobs lessons to revere and learn from. The iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, and iPad under Steve Jobs weren’t just products they were cultural phenomena. Jobs had an uncanny ability to predict what people didn’t yet know they wanted. When he unveiled the first iPhone in 2007, he didn’t just introduce a new gadget; he changed how billions of people interact with the world. He changed it all. Jobs passed away in 2011 at the age of 56, but his legacy continues to live in every sleek device that bears the Apple logo and in the countless entrepreneurs and dreamers he inspired. Lessons From Steve Jobs The Lessons from Steve Jobs’ Life Steve Jobs lessons from his life, is not just about technology, it’s about his vision, resilience, and valuing to live a life with purpose. His small but extraordinary journey has left us with many a lessons as inspiration, here are a few that we can look and revere of… Follow Your Curiosity Steve Jobs famously took a calligraphy class at Reed College, which taught him about various typefaces, spacing, and typography, proving to be a key inspiration for the Macintosh computer. Life has it all connected maybe sometimes, something’s you’ve learned in the past often connects the dots from the backward into the future, curiosity can lead us to unexpected and meaningful breakthroughs. Lesson for us: Don’t dismiss your passions or hobbies as “useless.” That side interest might one day become your biggest strength. Resilience is Your Strength Steve Jobs lessons highest point is the resilience that he had empowered himself with. Being fired from Apple could have been a permanent defeat for him, the very Company, and the brand that he had started, he was ousted from now. Instead, Jobs called it “the best thing that could have ever happened.” His ventures with NeXT and Pixar not only kept him creative but also positioned him to return to Apple with more experience and perspective. Lesson for us: Setbacks and failures will happen, treat them not as full stops; they’re commas in your story of life. Sometimes failure clears the path for your true destiny and worth. Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish Steve was always hungry to learn, even at his success and peak, he always had the zeal to improve and further up the brand and give value in innovation to people. Steve Jobs lesson is also to stay foolish in the sense keep the desire to learn, this one life is not sufficient that you will know everything, adapt to always let your knowledge be enhanced by learning more. Lesson for us: Pertaining to learning and curiosity, always stay hungry and foolish, let the drive to pursue them relentlessly, embrace lifelong learning and never let complacency set in. Steve, The Legend       4.Don’t Live Someone Else’s Life.  In his famous Stanford commencement speech, Jobs urged graduates not to be trapped by “other people’s thinking.” Your time is limited, so have the courage to follow your own intuition and heart. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. Lesson for us: Listen and learn from the genius, listen to your inner voice. Not all will have the same skills and talents. You nurture and build your own life with whatever you have but always strive to improve and progress.         5.Do It For the Love Of Your Passion and not For the  Love of Money  Steve Job’s lessons are not how to make money, it is beyond that all. Jobs’ primary driver was never wealth; it was a passion for creating revolutionary products. He famously said, “The only way to do great work is to love what

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Failure Can be Brilliant

Failure Can Be Brilliant: Turning Setbacks into Stepping Stones

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The word ‘Failure’ as early as we were in our learning years, has always been taught to us to fear. From our school grades to careers, relationships, and even creative pursuits, failure always seemed, it was born with a heavy weight. Failure can be brilliant not as an end, but as a vital beginning, when we shift our perspective and see it differently. Setbacks shape growth, every failure is a lesson, and every mistake can build a stronger foundation and can be a stepping stone to success. Failure Can be Brilliant What Does Failure Mean We have from childhood stitched success to others, their responses and judgment. What they say? For us everything outside decides the measure of success. Everything we do and every moment, we want it to be perfect. Anything less would seem a failure. Our lives are society driven rather society feared. Yes, failure brings with it a lot of fear. Fear of not maintaining or reaching the standards that we have set for our own selves and the fear of somebody else moving up the ladder. The word failure can make many go uncomfortable and a source of self-doubt. It speaks to them of their efforts that fell short. The dreams that came shattering to pieces. A race that we were running had us seeing others go past us speedily to reach the line, above which was written finish. Life did not unfold the way we had essayed or dreamt it to be.  To fail and move up as a motivation was never instilled into our psyche in our nurturing years. We were always trained to play it safe, no risks involved. This belief of finding failure can be brilliant as a thought and a lesson is what will make ordinary into success.   Failures can happen every day in our ordinary life. At work, when some work or project fails, not turning out as you planned. In relations that you value and all communications and understandings fail. In personal talents, when practice feels frustrating and progress slow and minimal. DON’T GIVE UP Why Failure Can Be Brilliant When Building Oneself Failure is not always the enemy of success, it is part of success. It is the nurturing years, the rehearsal before the final performance, and the scribbled rough draft before that same book became a bestseller. The world’s most remarkable achievements, scientific discoveries, artistic breakthroughs, and business innovations are often built on layers of mistakes and retries. In truth, every setback we experience holds within it a lesson, a doorway to growth, and a chance to build a stronger foundation for long-term success. Every success if was a book was filled with many pages of failures. By learning to embrace failure, we open ourselves to resilience, creativity, and wisdom that success alone can never teach. Shaping the Psyche for Growth ‘It’s all in your mind’ goes the quote. It holds like a solid truth in life and its living. Its’ the psyche, anchored in patience, courage, and hope, yes ‘hope against hope’ another quote. (Quotes have always come from experience, so let them inspire you.) Failure tests self-belief, there’s an inner struggle of self-doubt, self-belief and worth. Philosophy as a rescuer always reminds us that no external setback defines who we are, rather, our response to failure defines us. So sulk not and instead say, this moment is too weak to affect the ‘Warrior’ in me. You train yourselves to use failures as a stepping stones, rather than stumbling blocks. Let those stumbling blocks look like a design on the wall, and not a wall of stopper. Over time, this psychological response will become a shield against discouragement and a light showing you the way that reads success. Resilience Resilience is the art of getting up and bouncing back stronger after a fall. Discouragement maybe our reaction when we encounter failure. Try not now to sulk the loss, ‘the fall is fine’, should be your clarion response. An inner strength, a force now seeds to be born inside you, and we see it as an opportunity to scale and reach. It’s the perspective, your response is what will shape and mold the moment of failure. Go resilient. Resilient is not avoiding difficulties, it is about transforming and reshaping them. What can I learn? Should be your quest to thyself. How can I adapt? Where is the hidden brilliance in this failure? Making all these questions to turn into beliefs, that these failure moments will be altered to success, will now make these failures less of a wound and more of a weight-lifting exercise for your spirit, thus building an unshakable strength. Foundations of Success Success through Failure: The Long View Tell yourself, Success will come, but also tell yourself there will be a failure first, and maybe more than a single digit in number.   After 1000 unsuccessful attempts, the famous scientist Thomas Edison, the creator of the light bulb said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Also… “I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light-bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.” So well is it defined the failures as steps leading towards success. That’s a formula to success, failure. Failure can be brilliant as it failure brings a 100% assurance, a guarantee that there was a test and a struggle, thus refined by effort, and anchored in experience. “Like gold burned” the process of testing and purifying through trials and hardships. Failure is the reason when the success seems like an everlasting joy, a victory that feels fuller. This journey is appreciated, lessons learned, to do (what not) is the learning.     Embrace Failure, Embrace Brilliance If Success was easy, everyone would have it, but none would value it. Success does not arrive fully formed, it is carved through trial, error, and perseverance. For J.K. Rowling, Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, their brilliance was born not for their failures, but because of it. Treat failure not as a punishment, but as

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Forgiving and Letting Go of Anger

Forgiving and Letting Go of Anger: The Path to Inner Peace

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No life seem to be free from the burden of anger and un- forgiveness within oneself in this breathing sphere. Every life seem to be laced in stress and conflicts arising at work, in families, and the persons that they encounter each day. We hate or dislike others and forgiving and letting go of anger is essential not just for our daily interacting, but also for our own peace. Forgiveness doesn’t mean forgetting or excusing wrongs. It means choosing freedom over bitterness.   Forgiving and Letting Go of Anger Why Forgiving and Letting Go of Anger Matters First is to understand when we are hurt or wronged and unforgiving, there the effect or our response is getting angry. Anger will not resolve your moment of mistake, it will only complex or hurt the other and yourself.  Forgiving and anger may mean apart but they can be intertwined to result in lasting peace. We begin with first understanding,   What is anger and its repercussions? Anger gives you the Illusion that you’re in Control. Anger often feels like a righteous shield. In a situation where we’ve been wronged, hurt, or betrayed, anger can make us feel powerful, justified, and in control. It feels like a form of protection, a way to ensure we never get hurt that way again. We also mistake the intensity of anger for strength. Holding on to anger for too long turns it into resentment, which further affects both our body and mind.   But anger or getting angry has consequences.   Emotional Effects: Prolonged anger leads to anxiety, irritability, and even depression.            Making you feel frustrated and even lonely. Physical Effects: Studies link chronic anger to high blood pressure, heart diseases, and poor sleep. Relational Effects: Keeping grudges and words spoken in anger break families, ruin friendships and relations, and create workplace stress. Addictive and Routine: Anger can get addictive and become a way of life as response to situation’s when adverse or not of one’s liking.   What will happen when you forgive? When you choose forgiveness over anger, you’re not excusing harmful and hurtful behavior of yourself and of the other (in response), you’re freeing yourself from being controlled by it. (Forgiving and letting go of anger is a gift you give others second, but yourself first.)  Forgiving isn’t about erasing the past but about refusing the past to control your future. To forgive is an intentional choice to stop the hurt from constantly replaying in your mind. If anger closes the heart, letting go and forgiving can open spaces for joy and peace. When angry, you were controlled by the situation, by forgiving, you are at the driver’s seat, thus in control.  Letting go of resentment and forgiving is therefore not an act of weakness, it is an act of profound self-care. You know now that your peace is more important than your pain.   The Philosophy of Finding Peace Forgiving and Letting Go of Anger: The Philosophical Point Modern life is living in tempestuous currents, where stress and conflict can be our constant companions. Here to practice forgiving and letting go of anger can be an act of profound liberation for ourselves and others. To forgive is not your sign of weakness, in fact they are choices of power and deliberate choice that you make that would end up in lasting inner peace and more compassionate existence. Embracing to practice this philosophy isn’t merely about absolving others of their wrongs, it is an act of self-care that frees us from the toxic painful chains and hurts of resentment, un-forgiveness and anger.   To get angry is a natural human emotion, a signal that our boundaries have been crossed or our peace and understanding violated. Anger will not resolve, it makes you believe that your behavior of getting angry is making the other person suffer, but it’s a self-inflicted wound that prevents and shadows our peace and joy. Life is once, there are many a days filled with their bags of troubles, emotional debts we carry and collect. Forgiving and letting go of anger is releasing these debts, unburdening the weight. Healing our hostility Finding Clarity over Chaos Reclaiming our power on these situations We now are going against the trend where to retaliate and protest is the norm. If we are an extension of the nature that is around us and if we have to learn from its ways, then our response should be to pause, reflect, and respond with grace and not fury, no matter what be the act of dissent and disagreement. When you throw a stone over still water, there would be a rippling effect, let the words on the stone you throw be read as ‘forgiven’ and the ripple effect will be peace, joy and happiness. You are more courageous and strong when you forgive as this act isn’t normal for all to practice. But you are not normal…you are special. In a world saturated with division, this practice is a beacon of hope, reminding us that our shared humanity and living in this moment and time or era is far more significant than our differences. By consciously choosing to forgive and let go, we not only heal ourselves, we are contributing towards a globe of compassion and understanding, an act of liberation. A hero you are…   Escaping Resentment How to Let Go of Anger and Forgive in Daily Life It isn’t easy, but human living also was never easy. Practicing forgiving and letting go of anger is a process, when nursed and lived can become a way of life.   Acknowledge the hurt. It’s happened, recognize its occurring. Suppressing the hurt will have it raising its head in your moments of joy. Hurts and pains are for the moments, deal with them then. Your reaction of forgiving and choosing to not respond in anger will benefit and muscle your peace. It’s like if your emotion had a face, then the respond

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